{"id":260,"date":"2019-04-29T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2019-04-29T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:15:33","slug":"the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2019\/04\/29\/the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having joined the Severn Way yesterday near Avonmouth, today’s walk, which was Day 28, was all on the Severn Way.
\nThis meant it was fairly straightforward and I made good progress along the side of the river Severn in fair weather.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom Severn Beach I walked to New Passage and Old Passage. These two small riverside villages were the places where the ferries used to depart to take passengers across the Severn to Wales. This was the only way to cross before the bridge was opened in 1966. John and Charles Wesley had made the crossing.<\/p>\n

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\nBob came to meet me on the path and we walked into the Severn View services together and had a drink and a snack there.<\/p>\n

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\nThe next section of the path was to Oldbury on Severn. I met some cattle but apart from that I had the path to myself. Bob walked with me a bit at Oldbury to get a view of the power station as it was a similar type to one he used to visit in Wales 30 years ago. It is no longer providing electricity to the National Grid. There are a number of wildlife walks around the perimeter of the site.<\/p>\n

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\nI decided to walk onto Shepperdine in order to gain some miles so I could have some spare time to visit Slimbridge WWT later in the week. Shepperdine’s tiny iron church of St Marys is the smallest I’ve visited so far. It was erected in 1914 and services are still held there.<\/p>\n

St Mary’s outside and inside<\/em><\/p>\n

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On the way to our accommodation in Almondsbury we made a detour back to Oldbury on Severn to the community shop for a few items, and then to St Alrida’s church. One of only 2 churches dedicated to this local saint it was built on the site of an Iron Age hill fort and I’d seen it from the Severn Way.<\/p>\n